Building Effective Brain Health Care Teams

Once a patient has been diagnosed with dementia, having a supportive team with well-defined roles and responsibilities can increase confidence in managing dementia care and provide better patient outcomes. In this webinar, experts will discuss how to build a brain health care team, including identifying team members, clarifying their roles and responsibilities, and providing any needed training.

Kalisha Bonds Johnson, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC

Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD

David Aizuss, MD

David Aizuss, MD, a board-certified ophthalmologist living in Calabasas, California, is Board Chair of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Aizuss runs Ophthalmology Associates of the Valley, a multispecialty ophthalmology group in southern California. He has previously served as chief of surgery at Encino Hospital, as vice chief of staff at Providence Cedars Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, and as chair of the board of the Specialty Surgery Center of Encino.

First elected to the AMA Board of Trustees in June 2020, Dr. Aizuss was active in organized medicine and the AMA early in his career, attending his first AMA Annual Meeting while in medical school at Northwestern University and later serving on the AMA Medical Student Section Governing Council.

Active in a broad range of key leadership positions in his state and specialty societies, Dr. Aizuss has served as president of the California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, the Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology, and the Los Angeles County Medical Association. He was elected to the California Medical Association Board of Trustees in 2010, serving as board chair from 2014-2017 and president in 2018.

Dr. Aizuss completed nearly 40 years on the faculty of the UCLA Stein Eye Institute and David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine as assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology in 2023.

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